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Guess How Old They Are Now
This celebrity guessing game was a big hit in our senior care community.
In our Assisted Living wing, sharing fun facts about each celebrity sparked conversation and reminiscing. In Memory Care, guessing ages from the photos encouraged cognitive stimulation and social interaction.
For extra fun, consider including well-known local celebrities - but be sure to choose living celebrities, or the game can take an unexpectedly sombre turn!
Note: Use Play > Slideshow to reveal one celebrity at a time and build anticipation.
1.
Dick Van Dyke
Best known for:
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Dick Tracy (1990)
2.
Clint Eastwood
Best known for:
Rawhide (1959–1965)
The Dollars Trilogy (1964–1966)
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Dirty Harry (1971)
3.
Julie Andrews
Best known for:
Mary Poppins (1964)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
4.
Debra Paget
Best known for:
Broken Arrow (1950)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Love Me Tender (1956)
The Indian Tomb (1959)
5.
Kim Novak
Best known for:
Picnic (1955)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Pal Joey (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
6.
Sophia Loren
Best known for:
Two Women (1961)
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Sunflower (1970)
A Special Day (1977)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
7.
Shirley MacLaine
Best known for:
The Apartment (1960)
The Turning Point (1977)
Being There (1979)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
8.
Robert Redford
Best known for:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Sting (1973)
The Way We Were (1973)
All the President's Men (1976)
9.
Tippi Hedren
Best known for:
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
10.
Barbara Eden
Best known for:
I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970)
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
A Howling in the Woods (1971)
11.
David Attenborough
Best known for:
Life on Earth (1979)
The Blue Planet (2001)
Planet Earth (2006)
Frozen Planet (2011)
12.
Al Pacino
Best known for:
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Scarface (1983)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
13.
Christopher Lloyd
Best known for:
Taxi (1978–1983)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Back to the Future (1985)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
14.
Anthony Hopkins
Best known for:
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Father (2020)
15.
Jane Fonda
Best known for:
Cat Ballou (1965)
Klute (1971)
Coming Home (1978)
The China Syndrome (1979)
On Golden Pond (1981)
16.
Buzz Aldrin
Best known for:
Gemini 12 (1966)
Apollo 11 (1969)
Second person to walk on the Moon
17.
Eva Marie Saint
Best known for:
On the Waterfront (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
18.
June Lockhart
Best known for:
Lassie (1958–1964)
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Petticoat Junction (1968–1970)
19.
Lee Grant
Best known for:
Peyton Place (1965–1966)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Shampoo (1975)
20.
William Shatner
Best known for:
Star Trek (1966–1969)
T.J. Hooker (1982–1986)
Boston Legal (2004–2008)
21.
Carol Burnett
Best known for:
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Annie (1982)
Noises Off (1992)
22.
Michael Caine
Best known for:
Alfie (1966)
The Italian Job (1969)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Cider House Rules (1999)
The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012)
23.
Robert Duvall
Best known for:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
24.
Dionne Warwick
Best known for:
Walk On By (1964)
I Say a Little Prayer (1967)
Do You Know the Way to San Jose (1968)
That's What Friends Are For (1985)
25.
Paul McCartney
Best known for:
The Beatles (1960–1970)
Band on the Run (1973)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Wings (1971–1981)
26.
Mick Jagger
Best known for:
The Rolling Stones (1962–present)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
Paint It, Black (1966)
Start Me Up (1981)
27.
Helen Mirren
Best known for:
Prime Suspect (1991–2006)
The Queen (2006)
RED (2010)
1923 (2022–2025)
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updated for 2026!
This is such a great Idea. I myself was shocked at the ages of some of these favorites. Just showing that I'm getting older myself. LOL
I love this game. I find it helpful to do this kind of guessing game in 3 stages: Slide #1 = written info, Slide #2 = photo as a clue, Slide #3 = answer.
Updated for 2023!
Great game, it should be made yearly.
BEAUTIFUL!!! Love it and Thank You!!!
When doing this sort of an activity for people with dementia I will ask what sort of person they think the person in the picture is rather then asking them to name the person. This generates some fun comments and no answer is incorrect- it is an opinion!
Thanks for this tip Stephania, love it!
Would be great to add the celebs date of birth to this activity as the age is likely to change depending on when you use it.
This has been updated, thanks for your feedback Nicola!
Is there any way to put these images onto a TV screen? It sounds a great game, but it would save on printing & would add variety to the day if we could mix up the way our activities are delivered.
Thankyou,
Angela
This is an interesting idea Angela. I will put it to our team and see if we can come up with something!
Hi guys i work with middle to late stage dementia. Alot of residents are sleepy, or they find things hard to understand. Any ideas on any activities that might be worth a try. I find it frustrating when other carers just sit there. Many thanks Maggie
My same problem
Maggie, I work in memory care at my facility. The way that I do any type of trivia for the later stage is to read the question and then give them just 2 choices. Sometimes they say that they don't have any idea and I just simply ask them to just choose one answer. If someone answers wrong I don't say no that's wrong. I go to the next person and ask them. A lot of the time the next person can answer the question by process of elimination. If after two or three residents have answered if the right answer hasn't been found then I just simply tell them and praise them for trying to answer. After I tell them many of them say oh yeah that's right. We do a lot of trivia from the bible. Most late stage residents can remember things from the bible when they can't remember anything. One day we were doing bible trivia and one of my residents who doesn't talk and when she does everything is jumbled, began to answer the questions with no problem.
I downloaded the game. Printed page 2-5 as the first page was instructions on print both sides and then laminated them. Went over well in both Assisted Living and Memory Care. Thank you a great game.
Wonderful! Thank you for this awesome activity!
Im going to give it a go, some times i find guessing games hard but i might use an incentive to spure them along! and we have a few local celebs so ill add them in too, thank you for posting
I played this yesterday and it was a mixed response, i did replace some of the people as im in the UK and we didnt know who regis kelly was, but other than that it was a good game. I did it in a one to one setting as well, as some residents dont like joining in the group game and this worked very well.
Love this Danica! This is a wonderful game that you have put together!
A new activity has been posted by a Golden Carers member: Guess the Celebrity Age